CHINA FACING POPULATION SLIDE

The long-term population decline, especially when it is accompanied by a continously ageing population, is bound to cause very unfavourable social and economic consequences

Green Book of Population & Labour

As China’s population is set to peak in 2029, scholars say the world’s most populous country must now draw up policies to try to cope with a declining labour force and a rapidly ageing population

1.442B

Expected population of China in 2029

2030

When the population would start unstoppable decline

1.36B

Expected population by middle of the century

200M

Decline in workforce is forecast by 2050

1.17B

Expected population by 2065 if fertility rates is unchanged

400M

Forecast elderly population by 2035, up from 240M last year